Symphony
noun
A long piece of music for an orchestra, typically having four major sections or movements.
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is globally popular.
Often appears as...
- beethoven's ninth symphony
- symphony orchestra
noun
An elaborate instrumental composition in three or more movements, similar in form to a sonata but written for an orchestra and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements.
The symphony was his final work, and it was brilliantly composed.
Often appears as...
- compose a symphony
- symphony of sound
noun
A group of musicians who play classical music together and are led by a conductor.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is renowned for its excellent performances.
Often appears as...
- symphony orchestra
- symphony musicians
noun
Something regarded, typically favorably, as a composition of different but harmonious elements.
The garden was a symphony of colors in the spring.
Often appears as...
- symphony of colors
- symphony of flavors
noun
A long piece of music for an orchestra, typically having four major sections or movements.
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is globally popular.
Often appears as...
- beethoven's ninth symphony
- symphony orchestra
noun
An elaborate instrumental composition in three or more movements, similar in form to a sonata but written for an orchestra and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements.
The symphony was his final work, and it was brilliantly composed.
Often appears as...
- compose a symphony
- symphony of sound
noun
A group of musicians who play classical music together and are led by a conductor.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is renowned for its excellent performances.
Often appears as...
- symphony orchestra
- symphony musicians
noun
Something regarded, typically favorably, as a composition of different but harmonious elements.
The garden was a symphony of colors in the spring.
Often appears as...
- symphony of colors
- symphony of flavors
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Musical Structure
A symphony usually follows a specific structure with distinct parts like an introduction, development, and a finale.
A typical symphony might start slowly, build in complexity, and end with a triumphant finale.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical Significance
Famous symphonies have historical and cultural importance, often related to the era or the composer's background.
Mozart's symphonies are emblematic of the Classical era.
Pro Tip 1/2Musical Structure
A symphony usually follows a specific structure with distinct parts like an introduction, development, and a finale.
A typical symphony might start slowly, build in complexity, and end with a triumphant finale.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical Significance
Famous symphonies have historical and cultural importance, often related to the era or the composer's background.
Mozart's symphonies are emblematic of the Classical era.
Pro Tip 1/2Musical Structure
A symphony usually follows a specific structure with distinct parts like an introduction, development, and a finale.
A typical symphony might start slowly, build in complexity, and end with a triumphant finale.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical Significance
Famous symphonies have historical and cultural importance, often related to the era or the composer's background.
Mozart's symphonies are emblematic of the Classical era.
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The transformative power...
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A brain in a supercompute...
a massive grand piano, a million-key grand piano. Each of these neocortical columns would produce a note. You stimulate it; it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe, your reality.
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Making Simply Beautiful...
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Why is our universe...
would be united into a single framework, as they would all arise from vibrating strings. It's a compelling picture, a kind of cosmic symphony, where all the richness that we see in the world around us emerges from the music
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Meklit Hadero: The...
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The riddle of experience...
Now, I'd like to start with an example of somebody who had a question-and-answer session after one of my lectures reported a story, and that was a story -- He said he'd been listening to a symphony,
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How AI could compose a...
Live music was almost always used in silent films to augment the experience. But the problem with live music is that it didn't scale. It's really hard to cram a full symphony into a small theater, and it's really hard to do that for every theater in the world. So when music recording was actually invented,
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The transformative power...
You have CDs in your car, and you go to the symphony, your children are playing instruments. You can't imagine your life without classical music. That's the first group, quite small. Then there's another bigger group. The people who don't mind classical music. You know, you've come home from a long day,
Video examples
Welcome To The Elephant...
the place and actually slept there and all night there were these extraordinary elephant sounds because elephants don't sleep like we do there was just this symphony of elephants and in the morning they were still there and it was obvious that this was
Video examples
A brain in a supercompute...
a massive grand piano, a million-key grand piano. Each of these neocortical columns would produce a note. You stimulate it; it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe, your reality.
Video examples
Making Simply Beautiful...
visually literate in the pursuit of beautiful photographs it's kind of like music in that someone who studies music and practices music hears more when they listen to a symphony likewise with photography the more you pay attention
Video examples
The real meaning of soul...
the hauntingly bitter sweet even into joy and yet couldn't it be said that all great music is really soul music music that moves you that is sometimes literally so that I might fly myself dancing to a Beethoven symphony or to
Video examples
Why is our universe...
would be united into a single framework, as they would all arise from vibrating strings. It's a compelling picture, a kind of cosmic symphony, where all the richness that we see in the world around us emerges from the music
Video examples
Meklit Hadero: The...
taking up low, medium and high-frequency bands, in exactly the same way as a symphony does. And countless works of music were inspired by bird and forest song. Yes, the natural world can be our cultural teacher.
Video examples
Why do whales sing? -...
Clicks, pulses, whistles, groans, boings, cries, and trills, to name a few. But the most famous parts of this underwater symphony are the evocative melodies, or songs, composed by the world's largest mammals,
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The riddle of experience...
Now, I'd like to start with an example of somebody who had a question-and-answer session after one of my lectures reported a story, and that was a story -- He said he'd been listening to a symphony,
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Julie Harris
American Actress
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
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Frances Arnold
American Scientist
The code of life is like a Beethoven symphony. We have not yet learned how to write music like that. But evolution does it very well. I am learning how to use evolution to compose new music.
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Doc Severinsen
American Musician
Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Henry Markram
Israeli Scientist
You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.
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Nile Rodgers
American Musician
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.
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Devin Townsend
Canadian Musician
Deconstruction' is a really heavy record, a real symphony in a lot of ways, but with heavy musicians from the metal world - friends of mine.
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Bill Dedman
American Journalist
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
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Gustav Mahler
Austrian Composer
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
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Kyle Hill
American Author
Human atoms are the notes, their life the symphony.
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Johannes Brahms
German Composer
A symphony is no joke.
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Julie Harris
American Actress
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
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Frances Arnold
American Scientist
The code of life is like a Beethoven symphony. We have not yet learned how to write music like that. But evolution does it very well. I am learning how to use evolution to compose new music.
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Doc Severinsen
American Musician
Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Henry Markram
Israeli Scientist
You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.
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Nile Rodgers
American Musician
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.
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Devin Townsend
Canadian Musician
Deconstruction' is a really heavy record, a real symphony in a lot of ways, but with heavy musicians from the metal world - friends of mine.
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Bill Dedman
American Journalist
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
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Gustav Mahler
Austrian Composer
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
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Kyle Hill
American Author
Human atoms are the notes, their life the symphony.
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Johannes Brahms
German Composer
A symphony is no joke.
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